SOC Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain SOC security platforms and tooling, with a primary focus on SIEM, SOAR, and security automation.
• Develop Python-based services, scripts, automation workflows, and security integrations with SIEM, EDR, AWS, and internal security platforms.
• Build and maintain AWS-based security services and integrations, including EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Support SIEM operations and detection engineering, including log ingestion, parsing, normalization, correlation, and detection rule development.
• Develop detection use cases and common security threat models, based on attack scenarios and real-world security incidents.
• Participate in SOC on-call rotation and incident response, including alert triage, investigation, containment, and post-incident analysis.
• Work with SOC analysts and security teams to improve security automation, detection coverage, and platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Hands-on Python development experience is required. Experience with Golang or Java is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Experience developing production-quality services, automation, APIs, or internal security tools.
• Practical experience using SIEM platforms for security monitoring, log analysis, and alert investigation.
• Good understanding of SOC operations and Incident Response (IR), including alert triage and security incident investigation.
• Understanding of common security threats and experience developing security detections / threat models / SIEM use cases.
• Familiarity with EDR, security telemetry, REST APIs, Git, Docker, and Linux.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.